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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Economic Life and Industries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a moherega?
(a) Gikuyu clan.
(b) Gikuyu of the warrior class.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Farmer.

2. What food is used to feed women after childbirth?
(a) Millet.
(b) Beans.
(c) Rice.
(d) Tree peas.

3. What was the name of the chief who entered into a treaty with the Europeans and was then deported and died on his way to the coast?
(a) Waiyaki
(b) Wukumbi.
(c) Kikumboo.
(d) Kaigumbi.

4. How many stages of eldership did Kenyatta pass
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. What is riika?
(a) Initiation of a girl.
(b) Group of Gikuyu elders.
(c) Initiation of a boy.
(d) Age-grading among the Gikuyu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?

2. Into how many administrative districts is the Gikuyu territory divided?

3. The educated, intellectual minority of Africans were dismissed as ___________.

4. As a member of the warrior class, with what other tribe's warfare methods did Kenyatta become acquainted?

5. What is the value of a bull or ox in terms of sheep or goats.

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